Re: Code2001 (RE: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1)

2001-04-03 Thread James Kass
Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > Thanks: a great work! > Thank you! > Unluckily, I am totally unable to see the extended planes glyphs in Windows > NT, but I understand from other peoples' comments that it will work fine as > soon as I step to Windows 2000. > > I see that Code2001 is missing most

Code2001 (RE: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1)

2001-04-03 Thread Marco Cimarosti
James Kass wrote: > Here is a freeware Plane One font for testing: > http://home.att.net/~jameskass/code2001.htm > Included are Old Italic, Deseret, and Gothic, as well as a few other > items extrapolated from the Roadmap and preliminary proposals. > Constructive comments are welcome. (I know tha

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-04-02 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/30/2001 10:10:22 PM unicode-bounce wrote: >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> The historic notion >> of Unicode as a uniformly 16-bit encoding has been in principle obsolete >> for a while, but now it is also obsolete in practical terms. > >Actually, I think *that* statement is a bit premature,

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-04-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 11:52 PM -0800 3/30/01, James Kass wrote: >As far as keyboards/IME, if anyone has a notion of what a Deseret >or Gothic keyboard should look like (and a need for one), please >let me know. > I've got a keyboard for the Mac as part of the Deseret Language Kit, but frankly I never use it. Whe

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-04-01 Thread James Kass
William Overington wrote: > I am running a PC that has Windows 95, Word 97 and Internet Explorer 4. > > I downloaded the zip file and unzipped it and got the font file. I then > used Word 97, set the font to Code 2001 and the size to 24 point. > > I added a letter a to make sure it was worki

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-04-01 Thread William Overington
L PROTECTED]> Cc: Peter Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Michael (michka) Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:59 AM Subject: Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1 > >Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > >... >> It is not >> obsolete in pratical

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-31 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > if there is a need for a keyboard method, it should be possible > to create one. Most assuredly... but I am hesitant to consider the 16-bit world to be "gone" in practical terms until such methods are not only possible, but also widespread as well. We are

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-31 Thread James Kass
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote regarding Plane One display: > > Which word processor? Which HTML browser? > -- WordPad. Really. (The version that ships with W2K.) For the browser, the Internet Explorer that came with W2K. Perhaps there is an upgrade for Internet Explorer that would do the t

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-31 Thread James Kass
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > > > As far as keyboards/IME, if anyone has a notion of what a Deseret > > or Gothic keyboard should look like (and a need for one), please > > let me know. > > Um, the need for one is a way to actually input data? How else would a > typical user be able to type

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-31 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 11:52 PM -0800 3/30/01, James Kass wrote: >Included are Old Italic, Deseret, and Gothic, as well as a few other >items extrapolated from the Roadmap and preliminary proposals. >Constructive comments are welcome. (I know that the math >letter variants are incomplete.) It works in W2K with the

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-31 Thread Peter_Constable
Michael: On 03/31/2001 09:55:58 AM "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" wrote: >From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> As far as keyboards/IME, if anyone has a notion of what a Deseret >> or Gothic keyboard should look like (and a need for one), please >> let me know. > >Um, the need for one is a

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-31 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As far as keyboards/IME, if anyone has a notion of what a Deseret > or Gothic keyboard should look like (and a need for one), please > let me know. Um, the need for one is a way to actually input data? How else would a typical user be able to type such da

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-31 Thread James Kass
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: ... > It is not > obsolete in pratical terms until there is widespread support in the way of > fonts, keyboards, IMEs, and the other important items that help bring > characters to the user. > Here is a freeware Plane One font for testing: http://home.att.net/~ja

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The historic notion > of Unicode as a uniformly 16-bit encoding has been in principle obsolete > for a while, but now it is also obsolete in practical terms. Actually, I think *that* statement is a bit premature, still. It is not obsolete in pratical terms until there

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-30 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/30/2001 08:18:26 PM unicode-bounce wrote: >We are pleased to announce the release of The Unicode Standard, Version >3.1. The era of BMP characters only is now officially over. The historic notion of Unicode as a uniformly 16-bit encoding has been in principle obsolete for a whil

The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-03-30 Thread Mark Davis
We are pleased to announce the release of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1. The primary feature of Unicode 3.1 is the addition of 44,946 new encoded characters. Together with the 49,194 already existing characters in Unicode 3.0, that comes to a grand total of 94,140 encoded characters in